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Saint Margaret of Scotland

1045 - 1093

Feast Day: November 16 (New), June 10 (Trad)

Patronage: Scotland; parents of large families; against the death of children

St. Margaret of Scotland was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Margaret was born in exile in Hungary. Around 1070 she married Malcolm III of Scotland, becoming his queen consort. In her position as queen, all Margaret's great influence was thrown into the cause of religion. Her private life was given up to constant prayer and practices of piety. Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland and a queen consort of England.

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Within the Corpus Christi Octave, Nossa Senhora da Lapa / Our Lady of the Grotto, Portugal (1498), St Margaret of Scotland and Memorials of the Saints - 10 June

Within the Corpus Christi Octave Nossa Senhora da Lapa / Our Lady of the Grotto, Sernancelhe, Viseu, Douro, Norte, Portugal (1498) – 10 June:HERE:https://anastpaul.com/2021/06/10/ossa-senhora-da-lapa-our-lady-of-the-grotto-sernancelhe-viseu-douro-norte-portugal-1498-and-memorials-of-the-saints-10-june/ St Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) Queen consort of Scotland, Wife and Mother, Apostle of…

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Today is the #feastday of #stmargaretofscotland the second photo is of the oldest known building on the @edinburghcastle grounds, St. Margaret of Scotland Chapel. It is said to have been built in honor of St. Margaret by one of her sons, King David I. Patron Saint of large families, widows, for learning, against the death of children and #Scotland #ScottishSaints #Catholicism #stmargaretofscotlandprayforus https://www.instagram.com/p/B48I-XblzPO/?igshid=112ssqb7x9bln

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Holy Saints in Heaven, in your grace and wisdom, pray for us! ✨ Happy Solemnity, everyone! ✨ #allsaintsday #patronsaints #catholic #saints #solemnity #perthcatholic #stjoseph #jpii #ourlady #stteresaofjesus #chiarabadano #stgenevieve #stlucy #motherteresa #stannwang #marymackillop #stmargaretofantioch #stmargaretofscotland #dorothyday #edithstein #sthedwig #strafqa #stkateri #stmariagoretti #stcatherineofsiena #stteresaavila #joanofarc (at Respect Life Office)

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#pearlsofwisdom #madewithprayer #livinginthe& #stmargaretofscotland; known as the pearl of scottland established a ferry for pilgrims travelling to St Andrews. Here in North Carolina we have established a link through Saint Andrews College.

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The 12th century St Margaret’s Chapel at Edinburgh Castle. the chapel was actually built in by King David I of Scotland in 1130 and dedicated to his mother Queen Margaret (who, like many subsequent Queen Margaret’s of Scotland was born an English princess) was canonised (officially made a saint in 1250). • • • • #edinburgh #scotland #visitscotland #visitedinburgh #edinburgholdtown #familytravel #familyfriendlyedinburgh #iloveedinburgh #ilovescotland #visitedinburgh #visitscotland #historicscotland #chapel #stmargaretofscotland #kingdavid #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalscotland #royalscotland #saints #scottishsaints (at Edinburgh Castle)

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Saint of the Day – 10 June – St Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093)

Saint of the Day – 10 June – St Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093)

Saint of the Day – 10 June – St Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) Queen Consort of Scotland. Born as an English Princess in c 1045 in Hungary and died on 16 November 1093 at Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, four days after her husband and son died in defence of the Castle. Patronages – against the death of children, for students in their studies, parents of large families, queens, widows, of Scotland…

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Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn / Our Lady of Ostra, Brama, Vilnius, Lithuania (1363) and Memorials of the Saints - 16 November

Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn / Our Lady of Ostra, Brama, Vilnius, Lithuania (1363) and Memorials of the Saints – 16 November

Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn / Our Lady of Ostra, Brama, Vilnius, Lithuania (1363) – 16 November: This Marian Title is the prominent Catholic painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated by the faithful in the Chapel of the Gate of Dawn in Vilnius, Lithuania. The painting was historically displayed above the Vilnius City Gate; city gates of the time often contained religious artefacts intended…

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St Gertrude the Great (1256-1302) (Optional Memorial) About St Gertrude: https://anastpaul.com/2017/11/16/saint-of-the-day-st-gertrude-the-great-1256-1302-16-november/

St Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) Queen (Optional Memorial) About St Margaret: https://anastpaul.com/2018/11/16/saint-of-the-day-16-november-st-margaret-of-scotland-1045-1093-queen/

Patronage of Our Lady:   Feast permitted by a 1679 decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites for all provinces of Spain, in memory of the victories obtained there over infidels. Pope Benedict XIII granted it to the Papal States and it may now be celebrated with due permission by churches throughout the world.

Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn/Our Lady of Ostra Brama:  is the prominent Catholic painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated by the faithful in the Chapel of the Gate of Dawn in Vilnius, Lithuania.  The painting was historically displayed above the Vilnius city gate; city gates of the time often contained religious artefacts intended to ward off attacks and bless passing travellers. The painting is in the Northern Renaissance style and was completed most likely around 1630.   The Virgin Mary is depicted without the infant Jesus.   The artwork soon became known as miraculous and inspired a following.   A dedicated chapel was built in 1671 by the Discalced Carmelites.   At the same time, possibly borrowing from the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the painting was covered inexpensive and elaborate silver and gold clothes leaving only the face and hands visible. In 1702, when Vilnius was captured by the Swedish army during the Great Northern War, Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn came to her people’s rescue.   At dawn, the heavy iron city gates of the gate fell crushing and killing four Swedish soldiers.   After this, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Army successfully counter-attacked near the gate. In the following centuries, the cult grew and Our Lady became an important part of religious life in Vilnius.   This inspired many copies in Lithuania, Poland and diaspora communities worldwide.   On 5 July 1927, the image was canonically crowned as Mother of Mercy.   The chapel was visited by St Pope John Paul II in 1993.   It is a major site of pilgrimage in Vilnius and attracts many visitors, especially from Poland.

St Afan of Wales St Africus of Comminges Bl Agnes of Assisi St Agostino of Capua St Alfric of Canterbury St Anianus of Asti St Céronne St Edmund Rich of Abingdon (1175-1240) Bl Edward Osbaldeston St Elpidius the Martyr St Eucherius of Lyon St Eustochius the Martyr St Felicita of Capua St Fidentius of Padua St Gobrain of Vannes St Ludre St Marcellus the Martyr St Othmar of Saint Gal Bl Simeon of Cava — Martyrs of Africa – (11 saints)

Martyrs of Almeria – (9 saints): Soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, the Communist-oriented Popular Front had all clergy and religious arrested and abused as they considered staunch Christians to be enemies of the revolution. Many of these prisoners were executed for having promoted the faith and this memorial remembers several of them killed in the province of Almeria. • Adrián Saiz y Saiz • Bienvenido Villalón Acebrón • Bonifacio Rodríguez González • Diego Ventaja Milán • Eusebio Alonso Uyarra • Isidoro Primo Rodríguez • Justo Zariquiegui Mendoza • Manuel Medina Olmos • Marciano Herrero Martínez Beatification – 10 October 1993 by St Pope John Paul II

Feasts of Our Lady and Memorials of the Saints – 16 November St Gertrude the Great (1256-1302) (Optional Memorial) About St Gertrude: St Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) Queen…

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Second Saint of the Day – 16 November – St Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) Queen consort of Scotland – born in c 1045 in Hungary and died on 16 November 1093 at Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, four days after her husband and son died in defense of the castle.   Patronages – Scotland, Dunfermline, Fife, Shetland, The Queen’s Ferry, queens, widows, against the death of children and Anglo-Scottish relations.   St Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland, or four, if Edmund of Scotland, who ruled with his uncle, Donald III, is counted and of a queen consort of England.   According to the Vita S. Margaritae (Scotorum) Reginae (Life of St Margaret, Queen (of the Scots), attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1093, merely days after receiving the news of her husband’s death in battle.

Saint Margaret’s name signifies “pearl” “a fitting name,” says Bishop Turgot, her confessor and her first biographer, “for one such as she.”   Her soul was like a precious pearl.   A life spent amidst the luxury of a royal court never dimmed its lustre, or stole it away from him who had bought it with his blood.   She was the grand-daughter of an English king and in 1070 she became the bride of Malcolm and reigned Queen of Scotland till her death in 1093.

How did she become a Saint in a position where sanctity is so difficult?

Margaret’s biographer Turgot of Durham, Bishop of St Andrew’s, credits her with having a civilising influence on her husband Malcolm by reading him narratives from the Bible. She instigated religious reform, striving to conform the worship and practices of the Church in Scotland to those of Rome.   This she did on the inspiration and with the guidance of Lanfranc, a future Archbishop of Canterbury.   She also worked to conform the practices of the Scottish Church to those of the continental Church, which she experienced in her childhood.   Due to these achievements, she was considered an exemplar of the “just ruler” and moreover influenced her husband and children, especially her youngest son, the future King David I of Scotland, to be just and holy rulers.

“The chroniclers all agree in depicting Queen Margaret as a strong, pure, noble character, who had very great influence over her husband and through him over Scottish history, especially in its ecclesiastical aspects.   Her religion, which was genuine and intense, was of the newest Roman style and to her are attributed a number of reforms by which the Church [in] Scotland was considerably modified from the insular and primitive type which down to her time it had exhibited.   Among those expressly mentioned are a change in the manner of observing Lent, which thenceforward began as elsewhere on Ash Wednesday and not as previously on the following Monday and the abolition of the old practice of observing Saturday (Sabbath), not Sunday, as the day of rest from labour (see Skene’s Celtic Scotland, book ii chap. 8).”   The later editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica, however, as an example, the Eleventh Edition, remove Skene’s opinion that Scottish Catholics formerly rested from work on Saturday, something for which there is no historical evidence.   Skene’s Celtic Scotland, vol. ii, chap. 8, pp. 348–350, quotes from a contemporary document regarding Margaret’s life but his source says nothing at all of Saturday Sabbath observance but rather says St Margaret exhorted the Scots to cease their tendency “to neglect the due observance of the Lord’s day.”

She attended to charitable works, serving orphans and the poor every day before she ate and washing the feet of the poor in imitation of Christ.   She rose at midnight every night to attend the liturgy.   She successfully invited the Benedictine Order to establish a monastery in Dunfermline, Fife in 1072 and established ferries at Queensferry and North Berwick to assist pilgrims journeying from south of the Firth of Forth to St Andrew’s in Fife.   She used a cave on the banks of the Tower Burn in Dunfermline as a place of devotion and prayer.   St Margaret’s Cave, now covered beneath a municipal car park, is open to the public.   Among other deeds, Margaret also instigated the restoration of Iona Abbey in Scotland.   She is also known to have interceded for the release of fellow English exiles who had been forced into serfdom by the Norman conquest of England.

Margaret was as pious privately, as she was publicly.   She spent much of her time in prayer, devotional reading and ecclesiastical embroidery.   This apparently had considerable effect on the more uncouth Malcolm, who was illiterate – he so admired her piety that he had her books decorated in gold and silver.   One of these, a pocket gospel book with portraits of the Evangelists, is in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England.[8]

Malcolm was apparently largely ignorant of the long-term effects of Margaret’s endeavours.   He was content for her to pursue her reforms as she desired, which was a testament to the strength of and affection in their marriage.

St Margaret did not neglect her duties in the world because she was not of it.   Never was a better mother.   She spared no pains in the education of her eight children, 6 sons and 2 daughters and their sanctity was the fruit of her prudence and her zeal.   Never was a better queen.   She was the most trusted counsellor of her husband and she laboured for the material improvement of the country.

Her husband Malcolm III, and their eldest son Edward, were killed in the Battle of Alnwick against the English on 13 November 1093.   Her son Edgar was left with the task of informing his mother of their deaths.   Not yet 50 years old, Margaret died on 16 November 1093, three days after the deaths of her husband and eldest son.   The cause of death was reportedly grief.   After receiving Holy Viaticum, she was repeating the prayer from the Missal, “O Lord Jesus Christ, who by thy death didst give life to the world, deliver me.”   At the words “deliver me,” says her biographer, she took her departure to Christ, the Author of true liberty.

She was buried before the high altar in Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Scotland.   In 1250, the year of her Canonisation, by Pope Innocent IV, her body and that of her husband were exhumed and placed in a new shrine in the Abbey.   Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation and subsequently lost.   Mary, Queen of Scots, at one time owned her head, which was subsequently preserved by Jesuits in the Scottish College, Douai, France, from where it was lost during the French Revolution.

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Ember Friday, Nossa Senhora da Lapa / Our Lady of the Grotto, Sernancelhe, Viseu, Douro, Norte, Portugal (1498) and Memorials of the Saints - 10 June

Ember Friday, Nossa Senhora da Lapa / Our Lady of the Grotto, Sernancelhe, Viseu, Douro, Norte, Portugal (1498) and Memorials of the Saints – 10 June

Ember Friday, Fast and Abstinence Nossa Senhora da Lapa / Our Lady of the Grotto, Sernancelhe, Viseu, Douro, Norte, Portugal (1498) – 10 June:HERE:https://anastpaul.com/2021/06/10/ossa-senhora-da-lapa-our-lady-of-the-grotto-sernancelhe-viseu-douro-norte-portugal-1498-and-memorials-of-the-saints-10-june/ St Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) Queen consort of Scotland, Wife and Mother, Apostle of…

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Blessed Memorial of St Margaret of Scotland – November 16 

Margaret tried to improve her adopted husband andcountry by promoting the arts and education. For religious reform she encouraged synods and was present for the discussions which tried to correct religious abuses common among priests and laypeople, such as simony, usury, and incestuous marriages. With her husband, she founded several churches. Not only a queen, but a mother, she and Malcolm had six sons and two daughters. Margaret personally supervised their religious instruction and other studies. Although she was very much caught up in the affairs of the household and country, she remained detached from the world. Her private life was austere. She had certain times for prayer and reading Scripture. She ate sparingly and slept little in order to have time for devotions. She and Malcolm kept two Lents, one before Easter and one before Christmas. During these times she always rose at midnight for Mass. On the way home she would wash the feet of six poor persons and give them alms. She was always surrounded by beggars in public and never refused them. It is recorded that she never sat down to eat without first feeding nine orphans and 24 adults. In 1093, King William Rufus made a surprise attack on Alnwick castle. King Malcolm and his oldest son, Edward, were killed. Margaret, already on her deathbed, died four days after her husband.

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Today, November 16, is also the Memorial of St Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) Queen Consort, Wife, Mother – Patron of Dunfermline; Scotland; Fife; Shetland; The Queen’s Ferry; Anglo-Scottish relations

She is also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Margaret was sometimes called “The Pearl of Scotland”. Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057, but fled to the Kingdom of Scotland following the Norman conquest of England of 1066. Around 1070 Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland, becoming Scottish queen. She was a pious woman, and among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims. Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland (or four, if one includes Edmund of Scotland, who ruled Scotland with his uncle, Donald III) and of a queen consort of England. According to the Life of Saint Margaret, attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle in 1093, just days after receiving the news of her husband’s death in battle. In 1250 she was canonized by Pope Innocent IV, and her remains were reinterred in a shrine at Dunfermline Abbey. Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation and subsequently lost.

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November 16 – The Memorial of St Margaret Queen of Scotland 

As queen, Margaret changed her husband and the country for the better. Malcolm was good, but he and his court were very rough. When he saw how wise his wife was, he willingly listened to her good advice. Margaret helped him control his temper and practice the Christian virtues. She made the court beautiful and civilized. The king and queen were wonderful examples because of the way they prayed together. They fed crowds of poor people. They tried very hard to imitate Jesus in their own lives. Margaret was a blessing for all the people of Scotland. Before she came, there was great ignorance. Margaret worked hard to obtain good teachers to help the people correct evil practices. She and Malcolm had new churches built. She loved to make the churches beautiful to honor God. In fact, Queen Margaret embroidered some of the priests’ vestments herself. Margaret and Malcolm had six sons and two daughters. They loved all their children very much. The youngest boy became St. David. But Margaret had sorrows, too. In her last illness, she learned that both her husband and her son, Edward, had been killed in battle. They died just four days before Margaret’s death

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Happy Feast Day of St Margaret of Scotland – November 16 

Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Margaret was sometimes called “The Pearl of Scotland”. Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057, but fled to the Kingdom of Scotland following the Norman conquest of England of 1066. Around 1070 Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland, becoming his queen consort. She was a pious woman, and among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims travelling to Dunfermline Abbey, which gave the towns of South Queensferry and North Queensferry their names. Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland and of a queen consort of England. According to the Life of Saint Margaret, attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle in 1093, just days after receiving the news of her husband’s death in battle. In 1250 she was canonised by Pope Innocent IV, and her remains were reinterred in a shrine at Dunfermline Abbey. Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation and subsequently lost.